Re: TODO list

[James Courtier-Dutton <James@superbug.co.uk>]

Takashi Iwai wrote:
>> 7) Provide better OSS emulation support. E.g. redirect all access to 
>> /dev/dsp into user space so it can use all the features of alsa-lib 
>> without needing aoss. (aoss does not work if the application uses 
>> dynamically linked audio driver plugins.
>>     
>
> A dummy kernel driver just to translate syscalls to communication with
> a user daemon is the only possible workaround, IMO.  This idea was
> denied once quite ago, but I don't see any other good way right now.
>   
That is my thought as well. When I looked into the idea some time ago, I 
concluded that is would be a rather large project, so I did not proceed 
as I have other more important (for me) ALSA features.
Can a user space daemon create /dev files, so that the application calls 
never actually reach kernel space?
If we can create such a pipe, that can forward 
open/close/read/write/ioctl, that should be enough. We then have to 
think about shared memory to look like DMA space to the application 
using us.

>
> My additional wishes are:
>
> 8) Improve release engineering.
>
> 9) Better organized Web pages and BTS.
>
> 10) Build standard test suite and diagnosis tools.
>
>   
The words "Under staffed" comes to mind. :-)
> Takashi
>   

James